SemesterSpring Semester, 2020
DepartmentInternational Master's Program in Asia-Pacific Studies, First Year International Master's Program in Asia-Pacific Studies, Second Year International Master's Program in Asia-Pacific Studies, Third Year International Master's Program in Asia-Pacific Studies, Fourth Year
Course NamePolitical Development of Taiwan
InstructorYU CHING-HSIN
Credit3.0
Course TypeElective
Prerequisite
Course Objective
Course Description
Course Schedule

Syllabus and Readings



weak 1 to 3: theories and disciplines



Cheng, Tun-jen and Stephan Haggard, 1992



Regime Transformation in Taiwan: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives. In Tun-jen Cheng and Stephan Haggard, eds., Political Change in Taiwan. Boulder, Col.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, pp. 1-29.



Cheng, T. J. and Andrew D. Marble, 2004



Taiwan Studies and the Social Sciences. Issues & Studies 40, no. 3/4, pp. 9-57.



Clark, Cal, 1989



Taiwan’s Development: Implications for Contending Political Economy Paradigms. Chap.1 (The Puzzle of Rapid Growth in Taiwan) and Chap. 2 (Alternative Paradigms of Development), pp. 1-9; 13-50.



Fell, Dafydd, 2012



Government and Politics in Taiwan. Chap. 1 to Chap.3.



Huntington, Samuel P., 1991



The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century. Chap. 3 to Chap. 5.



Hsiao, Hsin-Huang Michael, 2012



Social Foundations of Political Vitality. In Steve Tsang, ed., The Vitality of Taiwan: Politics, Economics, Society and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 37-56.



Lee, Junhan, 2002



Primary Causes of Asian Democratization: Dispelling Conventional Myths. Asian Survey, Vol. 42, No. 6 (November/December 2002), pp. 821-837.



Lin, Jih-Wen, 2016



The PRC as a Player in Taiwan’s Domestic Politics: A Two-Level Game Analysis. In Gunter Schubert, ed., Taiwan and the ‘China Factor’: Challenges and Opportunities. London: Routledge, pp. 15-35.



Rigger, Shelley, 2003



Political Science and Taiwan’s Domestic Politics: the State of the Field. Issues & Studies 38(4/39), no. 1, pp. 49-92.



Rigger, Shelley, 2012



The Resilience and Dynamism of Taiwan’s Democratic System. In Steve Tsang, ed., The Vitality of Taiwan: Politics, Economics, Society and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 19-36.



Tsang, Steve, 2012



Forces behind the Vitality of Taiwan. In Steve Tsang, ed., The Vitality of Taiwan: Politics, Economics, Society and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-18.



Whitehead, Laurence, 2007



Taiwan’s Democratization: A Critical Test for the International Dimensions Perspective. Paper presented in International Conference on the After the Third Wave: Problems and Challenges for the New Democracies. August 13th -14th, 2007, Taipei: Taiwan.



Winckler, Edwin A., 2001



Regime Type and Regime Change on Taiwan: Some Conceptual Issues and Comparative Implications. In The Taiwan Studies Promotion Committee of Academia Sinica, ed., Change of an Authoritarian Regime: Taiwan in the Post-Martial Law Era. Taipei: Institute of Taiwan History (Preparatory Office), Academia Sinica, pp. 19-62.



Wu, Yu-Shan, 2013



Comparing Taiwan and the CEE Trio: the Impact of Social and Institutional Factors on Democracy. Taiwan Journal of Democracy, Special Issue, 103-127.



Sullivan, Jonathan, 2011



Is Taiwan Studies in Decline? The China Quarterly, Vol. 207 (September), pp. 706–718.



 



weak 3 to 5: constitutions and institutions after 1945



沈有忠(Yu-chung Shen)2012



〈半總統制「權力總統化」之比較研究〉。《臺灣民主季刊》,第9卷,第4期,頁1-36(Comparative Research on the“Power Presidentialization”of Semi-Presidentialism)



蘇子喬(Tzu-chiao Su)2013



〈兼容並蓄或拼裝上路?從內閣制與總統制優劣辯論檢視半總統制的利弊〉。《臺灣民主季刊》,第10卷,第4期,頁1-47(A Beneficial Combination or A Detrimental Mixture? Evaluating the Effect of Semi-Presidentialism on the Basis of the Debates on the Virtues and Vices of Presidentialism and Parliamentarism)



Chang, Alex Chuan-Hsien and Yu-Tzung Chang, 2009



Rational Choices and Irrational Results: The DPP's Institutional Choice in Taiwan's Electoral Reform. Issues & Studies, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 23-60.



Fell, Dafydd, 2012.



Government and Politics in Taiwan. Chap. 4.



Hsieh, John Fuh-Sheng, 2006



Institutional Design for a Mildly Divided Society: The Case of Taiwan. Issues & Studies, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 81-102.



------, 2009



The Origins and Consequences of Electoral Reform in Taiwan. Issues & Studies, vol. 45, no. 4, pp. 1-22.



Lin, Jih-Wen, 2007



Why Did Electoral Reforms Create Unfair Electoral Systems in East Asia. Paper presented in International Conference on the After the Third Wave: Problems and Challenges for the New Democracies. August 13th -14th, 2007, Taipei: Taiwan.



Rigger, Shelley, 2011



The Politics of Constitutional Reform in Taiwan. In Robert Ash, John W. Garver, and Penelope B. Prime, eds., Taiwan’s Democracy: Economic and Political Challenges. London: Routledge, pp. 37-50.



Roy, Denny, 2003



Martial Law and Kuomintang Domination. In Denny Roy, Taiwan: A Political History. Ithaca, NY.: Cornell University Press, chap. 4, pp. 75-104.



Shen, 2011



Semi-presidentialism in Taiwan A Shadow of the Constitution of the Weimar Republic. Taiwan Journal of Democracy, volume 7, no. 1: 135-152.



Shugart, Matther Søberg, 2005



Comparative Electoral Systems Research: The Maturation of a Field and New Challenges Ahead.. In M. Gallgher and P. Mitchell, eds., The Politics of Electoral Systems. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, pp. 25-55.



Tien, Hung-Mao and Tun-Jen Cheng, 1999



Crafting Democratic Institutions. In Steve Tsang and Hung-Mao Tien, eds., Democratization in Taiwan: Implications for China. MacMillan Press Ltd., pp. 23-48.



Wu, Yu-Shan and Jung-Hsiang Tsai, 2008



Taiwan: Democratic Consolidation under Presidential Supremacy. Taipei, Taiwan : Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica.



Yu, Ching-hsin and Yu-cheng Chang, 2009



Disproportionality under the Mixed-member System in Taiwan’s Legislative Election of 2008. Japanese Journal of Electoral Studies 25 (2): 119-130.



 



weak 6 to 8: parties and party system



Cheng, Tun-jen, 1989



Democratizing the Quasi-Leninist Regime in Taiwan. World Politics 41(4): 471-499. In Dafydd Fell, ed., (2008) The Politics of Modern Taiwan II. NY: Routledge, pp. 3-29.



Dickson, Bruce J., 1996



The Kuomintang before Democratization: Organizational Change and the Role of Elections. In Hung-mao Tien, ed., Taiwan’s Electoral Politics and Democratic Transition. NY: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., pp. 42-78.



Fell, Dafydd, 2011



More or Less Space for Identity in Taiwan’s Party Politics? In Gunter Schubert and Jens Damm (eds.), Taiwanese Identity in the Twenty-first Century. New York, NY.: Routledge, pp. 95-112.



Fell, Dafydd and Yen-Wen Peng, 2017



The Revival of Taiwan’s Green Party after 2008. In Dafydd Fell, ed., Taiwan’s Social Movements under Ma Ying-Jeou: From the Wild Strawberries to the Sunflowers. London: Routledge, pp. 177-198.



Lin, Chung-chu, 2006



The Evolution of Party Images and Party System in Taiwan, 1992-2004. East Asia: An International Quarterly 23(1): 27-46. In Dafydd Fell, ed., (2008) The Politics of Modern Taiwan IV. NY: Routledge, pp. 78-99.



Lu, Alexander Ya-li, 1992



Political Opposition in Taiwan: The Development of the Democratic Progressive Party. In Tun-jen Cheng and Stephan Haggard, eds., Political Change in Taiwan. Boulder, Col.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, pp. 121-146.



Rigger, Shelley, 1999



Politics in Taiwan: Voting for Democracy. Chap.3 (Party-state Authoritarianism in the Pre-reform Era, 1945-1972), NY: Routledge, pp. 55-80.



Schubert, Gunter and Stefan Brain, 2011



How to Face an Embracing China? The DPP’s Identity Politics and Cross-Strait Relations during and after the Chen Shui-bian Era. In Gunter Schubert and Jens Damm (eds.), Taiwanese Identity in the Twenty-first Century. New York, NY.: Routledge, pp. 72-94.



Tien, Hung-mao, 1992



Transformation of an Authoritarian Party State: Taiwan’s Development Experience. In Tun-jen Cheng and Stephan Haggard, eds., Political Change in Taiwan. Boulder, Col.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, pp. 33-55.



Wu, Yu-Shan, 2011



The Evolution of the KMT’s Stance on the One China Principle: National Identity in flux. In Gunter Schubert and Jens Damm (eds.), Taiwanese Identity in the Twenty-first Century. New York, NY.: Routledge, pp. 51-71.



Yu, Ching-hsin, 2005



The Evolving Party System in Taiwan, 1995-2004. Journal of Asian and African Studies 40(1/2): 105-123. In Dafydd Fell, ed., (2008) The Politics of Modern Taiwan IV. NY: Routledge, pp. 58-77.



 



weak 9 to 11: electoral politics



Achen, Christopher H. and T. Y. Wang, 2017



Conclusion: the Power of Identity in Taiwan. In Christopher Achen and T. Y. Wang, (eds.), The Taiwan Voter. MI.: University of Michigan Press, pp. 273-292.



Chao, Linda and Ramon H. Myers, 2000



How Elections Promoted Democracy in Taiwan Under Martial Law. The China Quarterly, Special Issue: Elections and Democracy in Greater China 162: 387-409. In Dafydd Fell, ed., (2008) The Politics of Modern Taiwan II. NY: Routledge, pp. 67-90.



Copper, John F., 2009



Transitioning from the CHEN Shui-bian to the MA Ying-jeou Presidency: The State of Democratization in Taiwan. In Seyom Brown, Cal Clark, Hiroki Takeuchi, and Alex Tan, eds., Taiwan at a Turning Point. Baltimore, MD.: University of Maryland School of Law, pp. 4-21.



Diamond, Larry, 2001



Anatomy of an Electoral Earthquake: How the KMT Lost and the DPP Won the 2000 Presidential election. In Muthiah Alagppa, ed., Taiwan’s Presidential Politics: Democratization and Cross-Strait Relations in the Twenty-first Century. New York: M. E. Sharpe, pp. 48-87.



Dickson, Bruce, 2001



Taiwan’s Democratization: What Lessons for China?. In Muthiah Alagppa, ed., Taiwan’s Presidential Politics: Democratization and Cross-Strait Relations in the Twenty-first Century. New York: M. E. Sharpe, pp. 115-132.



Fell, Dafydd, 2002



Party Platform Change in Taiwan’s 1990s Elections. Issues & Studies, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 31-60.



Fell, Dafydd, 2016



The China Impact on Taiwan’s Elections: Cross-Strait Economic Integration through the Lens of Election Advertising. In Gunter Schubert, ed., Taiwan and the ‘China Factor’: Challenges and Opportunities. London: Routledge, pp. 53-69.



Lay, Jinn-Guey, Ko-Hua Yap and Yu-Wen Chen, 2008



Transition of Taiwan's Political Geography. Asian Survey, vol. 48, no. 5 (September/October 2008), pp. 773-793



Lee, Wei-chin, 2011



Mediated Politics in Taiwan Political Talk Shows and Democracy. Taiwan Journal of Democracy, vol. 7, no. 2: 49-67.



Lin, Chiung-Chu, 2008



The Role of Issue in Taiwan’s Politics, 1996-2004. Issues & Studies, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 71-104.



Rampal, Kuldip Roy, 2011



The Media’s “Public Sphere” for Civil Society in Taiwan’s Democratic Consolidation. Taiwan Journal of Democracy, volume 7, no. 2: 69-93



Rawnsley, Gary and Qian Gong, 2012



Political Communications in Democratic Taiwan: The Relationship Between Politicians and Journalists. In Wengang Tang and Shanto Iyengar, eds., Political Communication in China: Convergence or Divergence Between the Media and Political System. London: Routledge.



Rigger, Shelley, 1999



Politics in Taiwan: Voting for Democracy. Chap.2 (Learning to Vote: The Origins of Taiwan’s Electoral System), NY: Routledge, pp. 34-54.



------, 1999



Politics in Taiwan: Voting for Democracy. Chap. 4 (Electoral Mobilization in the Pre-reform Era, 1945-1972), NY: Routledge, pp. 81-102



Sullivan, Jonathan, 2008



Campaign Advertising and Democracy in Taiwan. The China Quarterly, no. 196 (Dec., 2008), pp. 900-911.



Sullivan, Jonathan and Eliyahu Sapir, 2012



Nasty or Nice? Explaining Positive and Negative Campaign Behavior in Taiwan. The China Journal, no. 67 (January 2012), pp. 149-170.



Tien, Hung-mao, 1996



Elections and Taiwan’s Democratic Development. In Hung-mao Tien, ed., Taiwan’s Electoral Politics and Democratic Transition. NY: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., pp. 3-26.



Wang, T. Y., Su-Feng Cheng, and Lu-Huei Chen, 2009



Deep-Green Supporters and Political Tolerance in Taiwan: An Analysis of Kennedy's Hypothesis. Issues & Studies, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 1-30.



Wang, T. Y, 2017



Changing Boundaries: The Development of the Taiwan Voter’s Identity. In Christopher Achen and T. Y. Wang, (eds.), The Taiwan Voter. MI.: University of Michigan Press, pp. 45-70.



weak 12 to 15: political/identity issues



Beckershoff, André, 2017



The Sunflower Movement: Origins, Structures, and Strategies of Taiwan’s Resistance Against the ‘Black Box.’ In Dafydd Fell, ed., Taiwan’s Social Movements under Ma Ying-Jeou: From the Wild Strawberries to the Sunflowers. London: Routledge, pp. 113-133.



Chang, Bi-Yu, 2004



From Taiwanisation to De-sinification: Culture Construction in Taiwan since the 1990s. China Perspectives, No. 56, Special Edition TAIWAN: New governments, old themes, or the persistence of continuity (NOVEMBER - DECEMBER), pp. 34-44.



Chang, G. Andy and T. Y. Wang, 2005



Taiwanese or Chinese? Independence or Unification?: An Analysis of Generational Differences in Taiwan. Journal of Asian and African Studies (April) 40: 29-49.



Chu, Yun-han, and Jih-wen Lin, 2001



Political Development in 20th Century Taiwan: State-Building, Regime Transformation and the Construction of National Identity. The China Quarterly 165: 102-129. In Dafydd Fell, ed., (2008) The Politics of Modern Taiwan I. NY: Routledge, pp. 25-53.



Deng, Jian-Bang, 2016



Taiwan’s Immigration Policy and the China Impact: the Case of Cross-Strait Families. In Gunter Schubert, ed., Taiwan and the ‘China Factor’: Challenges and Opportunities. London: Routledge, pp. 215-238.



Dittmer, Lowell, 2005



Taiwan’s Aim-Inhibited Quest for Identity and the China Factor. Journal of Asian and African Studies (April)40: 71-90.



Grano Simona, 2017



The Evolution of the Anti-Nuclear Movement in Taiwan since 2008. In Dafydd Fell, ed., Taiwan’s Social Movements under Ma Ying-Jeou: From the Wild Strawberries to the Sunflowers. London: Routledge, pp. 154-176.



Gold, Thomas B., 1993



Taiwan’s Quest for Identity in the Shadow of China. In Steve Tsang (ed.), In the Shadow of China: Political Development in Taiwan since 1949. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, pp. 169-192. In Dafydd Fell, ed., (2008) The Politics of Modern Taiwan I. NY: Routledge, pp. 25-53.



He, Yinan, 2010



Competing Narratives, Identity Politics, and Cross-Strait Reconciliation. Asian Perspective, Vol. 34, No. 4, Special Issue on Seeking Political Reconciliation: Case Studies in Asia (2010), pp. 45-83



Ho, Ming-sho, 2006



Challenging State Corporatism: The Politics of Taiwan's Labor Federation Movement. The China Journal, No. 56 (July), pp. 107-127.



Ho, Ming-sho, 2010



Manufacturing Loyalty: The Political Mobilization of Labor in Taiwan, 1950–1986. Modern China, Vol. 36, No. 6 (November), pp. 559-588.



Hsieh, John Fuh-sheng, 2005



Ethnicity, National Identity, and Domestic Politics in Taiwan. Journal of Asian and African Studies (April)40: 13-28.



Huang, Chi, 2005



Dimensions of Taiwanese/Chinese Identity and National Identity in Taiwan: A Latent Class Analysis. Journal of Asian and African Studies (April) 40: 51-70.



Huang, Jing, 2017



Xi Jinping’s Taiwan Policy: Boxing Taiwan In with the One-China Framework. In Lowell Dittmer, ed., Taiwan and China. University of California Press, pp. 239-248.



Jiang, Yi-huah, 2017



Taiwan’s National Identity and Cross-Strait Relations. In Lowell Dittmer, ed., Taiwan and China. University of California Press, pp. 19-41.



Kastner, Scott L. 2006



Does Economic Integration Across the Taiwan Strait Make Military Conflict Less Likely? Journal of East Asian Studies, Vol. 6, No. 3 (September-December), pp. 319-346.



Katz, R. Paul, 2003



Religion and the State in Post-War Taiwan. The China Quarterly, No. 174, Religion in China Today (Jun), pp. 395-412.



Keng, Shu and Emmy Ruihua Lin, 2017



Mingling but Not Merging: Changes and Continuities in the Identity of Taiwanese in Mainland China. In Lowell Dittmer, ed., Taiwan and China. University of California Press, pp. 61-74.



Lin, Ping, 2016



Taiwanese Youth in Mainland China: Fragile Identity in the Shadow of China. In Gunter Schubert, ed., Taiwan and the ‘China Factor’: Challenges and Opportunities. London: Routledge, pp. 239-257.



Lo, Sonny Shiu-Hing, 2008



The Politics of Controlling "Heidao" and Corruption in Taiwan. Asian Affairs, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Summer), pp. 59-79.



Madsen, Richard, 2007



Tzu Chi: The Modernization of Buddhist Compassion. In Ricahrd Madsen’s Democracy's Daharma: Religious Renaissance and Political Development in Taiwan. Berkeley, LA., University of California Press, chap. 1 and Chap. 2.



Madsen, Richard, 2007



Buddha's Light Mountain: The Buddhist Contribution to Democratic Civil Religion. In Ricahrd Madsen’s Democracy's Daharma: Religious Renaissance and Political Development in Taiwan. Berkeley, LA., University of California Press, chap. 1 and Chap. 3.



Saunders, Phillip C. and Scott L. Kastner, 2009



Bridge over Troubled Water? Envisioning a China-Taiwan Peace Agreement. International Security, Vol. 33, No. 4(Spring), pp. 87-114



Schubert, Gunter, 2005



Taiwan’s Political Parties and National Identity. Asian Survey 44(4): 534-554. In Dafydd Fell, ed., (2008) The Politics of Modern Taiwan III. NY: Routledge, pp. 145- 165.



Shih, Cheng-feng and Mumin Chen, 2010



Taiwanese Identity and the Memories of 2-28: A Case for Political Reconciliation. Asian Perspective, Vol. 34, No. 4, Special Issue on Seeking Political Reconciliation: Case Studies in Asia (2010), pp. 85-113.



Wachman, Alan M., 1994



Competiting Identities in Taiwan. In Murray Rubinstein (ed.), The Other Taiwan: 1945 to the Present. Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, pp. 17-80. In Dafydd Fell, ed., (2008) The Politics of Modern Taiwan I. NY: Routledge, pp. 126-192.



Wang, Hong-Zen, 2001



Ethnicized Social Mobility in Taiwan: Mobility Patterns among Owners of Small- and Medium-Scale Businesses. Modern China, Vol. 27, No. 3 (July), pp. 328-358



Wu, Yu-Shan, 2013



From Identity to Distribution: Paradigm Shift in Taiwan Politics. Paper presented at the 55th Annual Conference of the American Association for Chinese Studies, The State University of New Jersey at Rutgers, New Brunswick, New Jersey, October 11-13.



 



weak 16 to 18: comparisons and future observations



Chang, Mau-Kuei Michael, 2008



Taiwanese Nationalism and Democratic Values. In Peter C. Y. Chow, ed., The “One China” Dilemma. New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 99-115



Dittmer, Lowell, 2017



Taiwan and the Waning Dream of Reunification. In Lowell Dittmer, ed., Taiwan and China. University of California Press, pp. 283-300.



Eunju Chi and Hyeok Yong Kwon , 2012



Unequal New Democracies in East Asia: Rising Inequality and Government Responses in South Korea and Taiwan. Asian Survey, vol. 52, no. 5 (September/October 2012), pp. 900-923.



Fell, Dafydd, 2012.



Government and Politics in Taiwan. Chap. 13.



Friedman, Edward, 2013



China’s Ambitions, America’s Interests, Taiwan’s Destiny, and Asia’s Future. Asian Survey, vol. 53, no. 2 (March/April 2013), pp. 225-244.



Ho, Ming-sho and Chen-Shuo Hong, 2012



Challenging New Conservative Regimes in South Korea and Taiwan. Asian Survey, vol. 52, no. 4 (July/August 2012), pp. 643-665



Jacobs, J. Bruce, 2007



Taiwan and South Korea: Comparing East Asia’s Two “Third-Wave” Democracies. Issues & Studies, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 227-260.



Keng, Shu, Lu-Huei Chen and Kuan-Po Huang, 2006



Sense, Sensitivity, and Sophistication in Shaping the Future of Cross-Strait Relations. Issues & Studies, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 23-66.



Keng, Shu and Gunter Schubert, 2010



Agents of Taiwan-China Unification? The Political Roles of Taiwanese Business People in the Process of Cross-Strait Integration. Asian Survey, vol. 50, no. 2 (March/April 2010), pp. 287-310 (Also see Gunter Schubert, 2016. Facing the Dragon and Riding the Tiger. In Gunter Schubert, ed., Taiwan and the ‘China Factor’: Challenges and Opportunities. London: Routledge, pp. 91-109.



Keng, Shu, 2011



Understanding Integration and “Spillover” across the Taiwan Strait: towards and Analytical Framework. In Gunter Schubert and Jens Damm (eds.), Taiwanese Identity in the Twenty-first Century. New York, NY.: Routledge, pp. 155-175.



Liu, Frank C. S. and Francis L. F. Lee, 2013



Country, National, and Pan-national Identification in Taiwan and Hong Kong: Standing Together as Chinese? Asian Survey, vol. 53, no. 6 (November/December 2013), pp. 1112-1134.



Rigger, Shelley, 2016



The China Impact on Taiwan’s Generational Politics. In Gunter Schubert, ed., Taiwan and the ‘China Factor’: Challenges and Opportunities. London: Routledge, pp. 70-90.



Saunders, Phillip C. And Scott L., 2009



Bridge over Troubled Water?Envisioning a China-Taiwan Peace Agreement. International Security, vol. 33, no. 4 (Spring 2009), pp. 87–114.



Stockton, Hans, 2008



National Identity, International Image, and a Security Dilemma: The Case of Taiwan. In Peter C. Y. Chow, ed., The “One China” Dilemma. New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 99-115



Sutter, Karen M. 2002



Business Dynamism across the Taiwan Strait: The Implications for Cross-Strait Relations. Asian Survey, Vol. 42, No. 3 (May/June 2002), pp. 522-540.



Wong, Kevin Tze Wai, 2010



The Emergence of Class Cleavages in Taiwan in the Twenty-First Century: The Impact of Cross-Strait Economic Integration. Issues & Studies, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 127-172.



Wu, Yu-Shan, 2001



Comparing Third-Wave Democracies: East Central Europe and the ROC. Issues & Studies, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 1-37.



Zheng, Zhenqing, 2013



Taiwan’s Wealth Gap and the Evolution of Electoral Politics after the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. Asian Survey, vol. 53, no. 5 (September/October 2013), pp. 825-853.


Teaching Methods
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Requirement/Grading

Syllabus will be provided in the first course meeting. In addition to the listed materials, students are encouraged to read other Chinese materials to acquire more detailed and instant information on Taiwan’s political development. Extra materials will be distributed to class when necessary.



Grade Distribution





  1. Course Presentations 25%;




  2. Discussions 25%;




  3. Essay 50% by June 22nd, 2020.




Textbook & Reference

Achen, Christopher and T. Y. Wang, (ed.), 2017.



The Taiwan Voter. MI.: University of Michigan Press.



        Fell, Dafydd. 2012.



       Government and Politics in Taiwan. London: Routledge.



Goldstein, Steven M., 2015



China and Taiwan. MA: Polity Press.



Rigger, Shelly, 2011.



Why Taiwan Matters: Small Island, Global Powerhouse. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield.



Huntington, Samuel P., 1991



The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century. The University of Oklahoma Press.



Schubert, Gunter, 2016.



      Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Taiwan. NY: Routledge



Tsang, Steve, ed., 2012



The Vitality of Taiwan: Politics, Economics, Society and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan.


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